I looked for a previous post for this, but the one closest to my ask is ten years old. I'm looking for websites with good writing on current events – not even mostly political, but also pop culture, accessible science-y content, and other stuff I might not even know I'll like...

I've realized that my online perusing world has gotten very small, and after this past week I've had to stop looking at some to save my sanity (farewell Reddit main page randomness). I like Boing Boing and Laughing Squid, for reference. That old ask recommended these, all of which I've read here or there, but never had as regular online visits:

The New Republic
The Atlantic
The New Yorker
Vox
Raw Story

Thoughts on their current quality? What other sites do you head to after you catch up on MeFi?

During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) called on The New York Times to retract its report that then-candidate Donald Trump was making "false claims" about FEMA neglecting certain areas impacted by Hurricane Helene because of political leaning. 

The post GOP Rep. Luna: NY Times ‘Should Retract’ FEMA Conspiracy Theory Accusations appeared first on Breitbart.

Rock art is a truly global phenomenon, with discoveries of cave paintings and etchings on every continent that ancient humans inhabited – but how many times was it invented over human history?

A Washington Post report said clicking a link on X to one of the affected websites resulted in a delay of about five seconds before the webpage loaded

'I have trained Ravish Kumar, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan...''But if I approach somebody for work, I never get it.'

It was another amazing 3 hours flight over beautiful Indonesia. We spotted Mount Agung on Bali the crater lake of Mount Ijen and Mount Merapi on Java. There were no clouds no wind just sunshine when we touched down in Kuala Lumpur at 10 am. It was the 6t

He did it in the Ukraine affair, of course, but most of his abuses have happened closer to home.

L. Bernal-González, H. J. Cabana-Méndez, G. A. Muñoz-Fernández and J. B. Seoane-Sepúlveda
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 3063-3083.
Abstract, references and article information

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.

For the Sunday, December 8 issue, a centerspread ad has been designed as a piece of planet-friendly wrapping paper.

At a town hall meeting in Saskatoon on Thursday night, Trudeau faced tough questions about the imbroglio despite the crowd being stocked with supporters from his ruling Liberal Party.

Donald Trump said he was 'surprised' at the number of times Justin Trudeau has donned blackface but admitted he hoped he would not get asked about the Canadian prime minister.

A poem by Marie Howe from the Library's Poetry 180 Project.